March 03, 2023

Massachusetts, Of All Places, Is Finally Putting Black Voices Front and Center

By Jessica Washington Letā€™s be real hereĀ when people think about Massachusetts and specifically the Boston area;Ā Black empowerment isnā€™t exactly top of mind. But on Friday,Ā Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announcedĀ she was creating an Advisory Council onĀ Black Empowerment. The council, comprised of 30 Black leaders from across the state, will adviseĀ Healey on various issues impacting Black Americans,

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White student expelled from Howard Universityā€™s law school sues alleging racial discrimination

By Claretta Bellamy A white student who was expelled from Howard Universityā€™s law school is suing the historically Black university in Washington, D.C., alleging race discrimination and creating a hostile environment. Plaintiff Michael Ray Newman, who attended the Howard University School of Law in fall 2020 after having received a $26,250 annual scholarship, was expelled

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HBCU Journalism Majors Receive White House Press Briefing

By D. Thompson Student funding, loan forgiveness, mental health, racial inequalities and resources for universities were some of the topics discussed last week at a White House press briefing with Vice President Kamala Harris, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms and journalism students from Bowie State University and Ā 41 Ā other HBCUs. Harris and

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Conservative and liberals split at Supreme Court over Biden student loan plan

By Nina Totenburg A handful of Republican-dominated states seemed on the verge of invalidating President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with a majority of the court’s conservatives indicating great skepticism. In 2003, after the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed a law to ensure that federal student loan borrowers would not

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Virginia Military Instituteā€™s first Black superintendent facing backlash from schoolā€™s alumni

By Nichol Chavez An alumni group of theĀ Virginia Military InstituteĀ is publicly questioning why the collegeā€™s first Black superintendent was awarded a more ā€œgenerousā€ bonus than last year. Retired Army Maj. Gen.Ā Cedric T. WinsĀ has served as superintendent of the public military college since 2020. He first assumed the role in an interim capacity after General J.H.

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Tuskegee University receives $100K Research Award from Microsoft

By Brittney Dabney Tuskegee University has been awarded $100,000 by the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Initiative that allows researchers to leverage the technology to develop real-time resource management using reinforcement learning, one of the most discussed techniques in artificial intelligence (AI). Drs. Mohammad Rahman and Fan Wu, faculty members of the Department of Computer Science, College

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